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So important!

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So in case anyone wanted more evidence of how government suppression of free speech is spreading globally, in the UK on Thursday evening (March 27th), twenty police officers broke into Westminster Quaker Meeting House in London and arrested six members of the group Youth Demand who met to discuss concerns about the climate and Gaza. The charge was apparently conspiracy to commit a public nuisance - this raid is a direct result of law changes in 2022 and 2023 designed to dramatically restrict people's ability to plan and carry out protests. In addition to breaking into the Meeting House, there have apparently been twelve related house raids and three other arrests.

This is horrifying. It is happening under an allegedly left wing government (our current PM Starmer is Labour, but that name doesn't really mean anything under his government). There is no harm caused in meeting to discuss ways to challenge the government, except to the government itself. Yet apparently, a simple meeting is enough to justify police armed with tasers and more than a dozen raids.

We are allowed to believe that change is necessary. We are allowed to discuss ways to make change happen - and across history, the most significant social changes have only been made possible thanks to protest.

Screw Labour and the UK establishment.

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What benefit is there to signing a lease if they can still evict you like this? I guess you can still use it to put pressure on them to keep up with maintenance? But most leases promise little or none of that these days...

At the same time I thought they could already evict you inside a lease.

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https://youtu.be/PtQFeu5EvVk?si=Vwi0wK_NhiUiJJLo

Hmmm same company as Portsmouth regional

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I hate this. I keep hearing more and more of this. Nominations pulled for being "too woke." Grants pulled. Funding cut. All they have to say is "woke." I hate it.

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Ryan Prudhomme

Police shot a man outside Lowe's in Nashua last night. They haven't released his I'd but they say he was armed and "having a mental health issue."

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Dozens of unclaimed remains buried, cremated each year in New Hampshire

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Police shot a man outside Lowe's in Nashua last night. They haven't released his I'd but they say he was armed and "having a mental health issue."

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I've seen almost no coverage of this incredibly powerful strike by Argentinan unions against economic policies in the face of massive inflation. I wish we could get something like that going here. The cost of living is ... Not as bad as Argentina, but still nauseating.

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Poverty levels skyrocketed to 57.4% of Argentina’s 46 million people in January, the highest rate in 20 years, according to a study by the Catholic University of Argentina. The findings quickly unleashed accusations between Argentina’s former Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and the government of President Javier Milei, who came to power announcing a series of shock measures aimed at tackling the country’s severe crisis. About 27 million people in Argentina are poor and 15% of those are mired in “destitution,” meaning they cannot adequately cover their food needs, according to the study released over the weekend. The UCA’s social debt observatory is considered an independent and prestigious research space whose reports on poverty cover a larger geographical area than those conducted by Argentina’s national statistics agency, INDEC. It also applies a methodology that addresses the problem with a more multidimensional approach and its findings are seldom questioned by politicians and economists. According to the center’s latest report, the increase in poverty levels in January was partly due to the devaluation of the Argentine peso applied by the Milei government shortly after taking office on Dec. 10. This resulted in an increase in the price of the country’s basic basket — which includes food, services and non-food goods — and the basic food basket. Working- or middle-class households that do not receive benefits through social programs experienced the greatest impact, the study concluded. Eduardo Donza, a researcher with the social debt observatory, told The Associated Press that although inflation could slow in the coming weeks, the incidence of rising prices will continue to impact Argentinians and poverty would hit at least 60% of the population around March.

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Effective repellents contain

20% or more DEET

Or

Oil of lemon eucalyptus

Or

Picaridin

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Aclu of NH successfully fights a law that would have prohibited teachers from discussing race in the classroom

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Government deeply useless as climate change causes floods in nh